Nina Klinkel

Nina Klinkel (born September 10, 1983 in Mainz ) is a German politician ( SPD ) and an elected member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

biography

Nina Klinkel grew up in the Mainz-Bingen district . She attended the Gutenberg High School in Mainz . In 2005 she became a member of the SPD. By 2012 she completed a degree in history and political science with a master's degree at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . Her master's thesis dealt with the subject of Nazi “euthanasia” in Rheinhessen and was published as a book. After graduating, she worked as an external collaborator at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Mainz and began to work on her dissertation. She then received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation from 2013 until she was elected to the state parliament .

Klinkel has been a member of the sub-district executive committee of the SPD Mainz-Bingen since 2010. From 2014 to 2016 she was a member of the Rhein-Selz municipal council , from 2009 to 2015 she was a member of the Mommenheim municipal council (parliamentary group leader). In Mommenheim she ran for the local mayor of the SPD in the 2014 local elections , but was defeated by incumbent Hans-Peter Broock (CDU).

Nina Klinkel has also been a member of committees of the Mainz-Bingen district council since 2014 and has been a member of the board of the SPD Heidesheim since 2016. At the state party conference of the SPD Rhineland-Palatinate on November 24, 2018, she was elected to the state executive of her party. She now lives in Nieder-Olm and became chairwoman of the local SPD city council group after the 2019 municipal elections .

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 , she was elected via the state list. She was only barely defeated by Dorothea Schäfer from the CDU with 0.2 percentage points , who won the direct mandate for the constituency of Ingelheim am Rhein with 36.2 percent . Since May 18, 2016, Nina Klinkel has been in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, among other things, in the Committee on Agriculture and Viticulture (full member), the Petitions Committee (full member), the Legal Committee (full member), the Committee on European Affairs and a World ( Deputy Member) and in the Prison Commission (Deputy Member). In addition, the historian is the spokesperson for memorial culture in her parliamentary group. In January 2017, Klinkel was named by her parliamentary group as the SPD chairwoman of the study commission on economic and location factor tourism in Rhineland-Palatinate . This started work in September of the same year.

In August 2020, the SPD nominated her again as a candidate in constituency 30 for the upcoming state election .